The website design confused me and I'm a web developer.
Posted: Fri Feb 28, 2020 9:18 pm
Hi, this is an observation to help you increase the amount of people running Folding@Home.
I'm jumping back into the pool after many years to help with the COVID-19 effort. I quickly arrived to the site ready to download and run as quick as possible.
I saw an animation which made me think the download had started already somehow. I thought it was some super advanced folding@home web skills at work, and clicked to another tab. I bounced out to another website because I thought I had clicked all of the available buttons. Here is the animation that confused me, it's the loading bar:
I would like to posit that you are losing some non-zero percentage of potential new folders with this current design. The site looks great otherwise, I'm just drawing your attention to it in an effort to help. I'm not suggesting that I could produce a better looking website.
If I'm honest I like to think that perhaps this post will change history by bringing in that extra 0.0001% compute that will defeat COVID-19 and thereby save millions of lives.
I'm jumping back into the pool after many years to help with the COVID-19 effort. I quickly arrived to the site ready to download and run as quick as possible.
I saw an animation which made me think the download had started already somehow. I thought it was some super advanced folding@home web skills at work, and clicked to another tab. I bounced out to another website because I thought I had clicked all of the available buttons. Here is the animation that confused me, it's the loading bar:
I would like to posit that you are losing some non-zero percentage of potential new folders with this current design. The site looks great otherwise, I'm just drawing your attention to it in an effort to help. I'm not suggesting that I could produce a better looking website.
If I'm honest I like to think that perhaps this post will change history by bringing in that extra 0.0001% compute that will defeat COVID-19 and thereby save millions of lives.
